New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 41, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Natalie Klein, Nuclear Submarines under AUKUS and Implications for International Law in the Indo-Pacific
• Hitoshi Nasu, The Strategic Use of International Law in the Crisis of Taiwan Strait
• International Law and the Rights of Women in East Asia Carole J. Petersen, A Comparative Study of the Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• Jason Rudall, The Energy Transition and Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Asia: On Managing Expectations and Avoiding Sagas
• Yi Tang, Charting a New Legal Order: ASEAN’s Arbitration Reform in Taming the “Unruly Horse” of Public Policy Exception
• Kentaro Nishimoto, Can Marine Protected Areas be Established in the South China Sea under the BBNJ Agreement?
• Miriam Cohen, Climate Change Proceedings as a Watershed Moment: Public Interest in the Jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
• Kuang-hao Hou, Warning against Silverfish in Democracy: Decaying Constitutionalism in the Society of Taiwan
• Thanapat Chatinakrob, Legal Risks and Challenges of Unregulated AI: An Analysis of International Legal Frameworks for Mitigating Risks and Ensuring Ethical and Legal Compliance in the Development and Deployment of AI
• Ángeles Jiménez García-Carriazo & Suriya Narayanan Sundararajan, Transfiguring Islands to Rocks: Examining the Effects of Sea Level Rise in Light of Article 121 of UNCLOS
• Chung-Han Yang, Evaluating Taiwan – U.S. Bilateral Engagements in the Trade-Climate Change-Energy Nexus: Lessons and Opportunities for the Taiwan – U.S. Initiative on 21st Century Trade
• Special Report
• Hsiu-Feng Lin, The Review of Key Cases Involving the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Japanese Courts

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 40, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Ying-jeou Ma, Reflections on Why I Studied International Law and How I Used It to Help my Country and People
• Articles
• David Proaño Alcívar, States in Danger of Extinction: The Case of the Republic of Kiribati
• Tomas Hamilton & Gabriele Caon, Corporate Accountability for Atrocity Crimes in Myanmar: Business Complicity in the Investigations of the UN Fact-Finding Mission
• Sungjin Kang, The DEPA and ASDEA: Template for Digital Trade Agreements for Indo-Pacific?
• Mao-wei Lo, Can the CPTPP Help? The (Un)expected Roles of the CPTPP to Eradicate Forced Labor Issues in Taiwanese Distant Water Fisheries
• Special Reports: Indo-Pacific Strategies
• Desirée LeClercq, The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity: Promise or Peril for Labor Governance through Trade Instruments?
• Yurika Ishii, The Connectivity in the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Strategies of the ASEAN, the US, and the EU
• Arie Afriansyah & Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, Sailing between Reefs: Balancing Indonesia’s Maritime Security Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
• Stefanie Schacherer, The EU and the Indo-Pacific Region – Prospects of a Green Partnership
• Special Reports: Taiwan and International Law
• David KC Huang & Nigel N.T. Li, National Identity in Taiwan: A Doctrinal Analysis through the Lens of Democratism
• Tsung-Ling Lee, Taiwan and the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR): Covid-19 and the Evolving Landscape of Global Health
• Ying-Jun Lin, No Pay, No Gain? APEC and Taiwan’s Experiences

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 39, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Thomas D. Grant, Rescission of the Autonomy of Hong Kong
• Volker Roeben & Sava Jankovic, Validity of Contested Title to Territory in Frozen Conflict Zones: The Case of Nagorno Karabakh with Particular Reference to the 2020 War
• Denise Cheong & S. Nivedita, Enhancing Transboundary Consultation in the Context of Nuclear Power Development in Southeast Asia
• Makoto Seta, International Framework for Cruise Vessels in the Post-Pandemic Asia-Pacific Region: Unclear Rights over Internal Waters
• Mark McLaughlin, Regulating the Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Investment Arbitration
• Min K. Lee & Ji Hyoi Moon, The More the Merrier: Is East Asia’s ADR Scene Missing out on Expert Determination?
• Winnie Jo-Mei Ma, Institutional and Legislative Rule-Making for Taiwan’s Arbitration: CAA and Its International Arbitration Centre
• P. Brian Chen, Investigating the WHO’s Lack of Insulation from International Power Politics
• Special Reports
• Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, The EU, China and Taiwan: Time to Embrace Change
• Siqi Zhao, Promoting and Protecting Cultural and Creative Industries through Free Trade Agreements: The Experience from Korea and Japan

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 38, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Neo-Liberal, State-Capitalist and Ordo-Liberal Conceptions of World Trade: The Rise and Fall of the WTO Dispute Settlement System
• David KC Huang & Nigel N.T. Li, Why China Finds It Difficult to Enable the Rule of Law
• Jaemin Lee, All Words and No Action ― Korea’s FTA Experience in Addressing Investigating Authorities’ Discretion in Trade Remedy Investigations and Ensuing Legal Implications
• Special Reports
• Benny Yiu-ting Tai, The Rebirth of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law
• Bo-jiun Jing, Cybersecurity is National Security: Can Taiwan Have the Digital Cake and Eat It Too?
• Jeffrey (Chieh) Lo, A Story of Two Disputes: (Potential) Investment Claims that hit Taiwan under the Singapore-Taiwan FTA (ASTEP)

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 37, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Ying-jeou Ma, Introduction to the Hungdah Chiu Lecture: The Taiwan Relations Act and International Law
• Christopher Ward, The Universal Language of International Law: History and Prospects
• Karsten Nowrot & Emily Sipiorski, (De)Constitutionalization of International Investment Law? Assessing Narratives from the Asia-Pacific
• Chie Sato, The EU’s Effective Protection of Marine Living Resources and Its Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region—What Can We Learn from the Eu Experience?
• Gabriele Gagliani, The European Union and Asean Countries Trade Relations: “Building Blocks” or “Stumbling Blocks?”
• Lan Ngoc Nguyen & Yen Hoang Tran, Coastal States’ Enforcement Power over Fishing Activities in the South China Sea: Where is the Line under International Law?
• Soo-hyun Lee, Fair and Equitable Treatment in the International Investment Regime of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., North Korea’s Sanctions-Busting Maritime Practices: Implications for Commercial Shipping
• Peter Tzeng, Fisheries Review Panels: Lessons from Russia v. Commission and Ecuador v. Commission 
• Lin-Ling Uang, A Comparative Legal Study on Functions and Powers of the Ombudsman System in Taiwan and Mainland China
• Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, From European Toward Global Taiwan Studies: An Introduction to Three Organizations
• Intan Soeparna, Asean Investment Dispute Settlement: A Challenge to the Asean Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 36, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Roda Mushkat, Economics and International Law: Closer Alignment through Greater Analytical Diversity?
• Christopher Chen & Wai Yee Wan, Transnational Corporate Governance Codes: Lessons from Regulating Related Party Transactions in Hong Kong and Singapore
• Margaret K. Lewis, Creative Contacts: Taiwan’s Quest for International Law Enforcement Cooperation
• Julian G. Ku, The Taiwan Travel Act is Legally Binding
• Siao-Wun Chiu, Taiwan’s Antitrust Leniency Policy and the Framework to Build an Effective Antitrust Compliance Program
• Weixia Gu, Belt and Road Dispute Resolution: New Development Trends
• Huiqin Jiang, Demystifying China’s International Commercial Court Regime: International or Intra-National?

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 35, 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• James A.R. Nafziger, Some Personal Reflections about Getting Started as an International Lawyer
• Articles
• Michael Hwang S.C. & Lim Si Cheng, Breaking the Silence of the Executive: The Residual Role of the Common Law Courts in the Determination of Statehood
• Hyun-jin Park, Sovereignty Over Dokdo as Interpreted and Evaluated from the Korean-Japanese Exchanges of Notes Verbales (1952–1965)
• Yasue Mochizuki, Roles and Functions of Transitional Justice Mechanisms in the Asia-Pacific Region in the Development of International Law
• Brian McGarry, Third Parties and Insular Features After the South China Sea Arbitration
• Agata Kleczkowska, “Recognition” of Governments by International Organizations – The Example of the UN General Assembly and Asian States

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 34, 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Special Section: The South China Sea Arbitration
• Gerhard Hafner, Some Remarks on the South China Sea Award: Itu Aba versus Clipperton
• Dustin Kuan-Hsiung Wang, From Dangerous Ground to Safe Playground: A Revisit to Fishery Co-operation in the South China Sea  
• Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, The July 12 Award on the Historic Titles, Historic Rights and Impacts on State Practices in the South China Sea  
• Yen-Chiang Chang, China’s Non-Participation Approach toward the South China Sea Arbitration  
• Julian Ku, The Significance of China’s Rejection of the South China Sea Arbitration for Its Approach to International Dispute Settlement and International Law
• Articles
• Alonso E. Illueca, Enforcing the United Nations Security Council’s Arms Embargo on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: A Case Study of the Legal Consequences of the Chong Chon Gang Incident
• Stephen Allen, Dean v. Lord Advocate and the Non-Refoulement Principle at the Margins
• Bo-jiun Jing, “Go South” Going South? Assessing Taiwan’s “New Southbound” Policy and the China Factor in Southeast Asia

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 33, 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Jerome A. Cohen, Establish Yourself at Thirty: My Decision to Study China’s Legal System
• Articles
• Mizushima Tomonori, Law-Making Process concerning State Jurisdiction over Artworks Loaned from Abroad: Implications of the Exhibition of Treasured Masterpieces from Taipei
• Yann-huei Song, U.S. Practice Regarding Article 121(3) of UNCLOS and the South China Sea Arbitration Case
• Michael Sheng-ti Gau, The 2015 Award on Jurisdiction and Admissibility of the South China Sea Arbitration and the Insurmountable Thresholds
• Yuka Fukunaga, Infrastructure Investment in Asia and Protection under International Investment Agreements
• Michelle Dy, Coordinating Games: The Challenge of Pursuing a Financial Integration Project in ASEAN
• Special Reports
• Nigel N.T. Li, Amicus Curiae Submission by the Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law in the South China Sea Arbitration: An Introductory Note
• Der-Chin Horng, Taiwan Practices in the WTO Main Activities: 2002-2015
• Pasha L. Hsieh & Pei-Lun Tsai, The 2015 Ma-Xi Meeting in Singapore

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 32, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Helmut Tuerk, The Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
• Chang-fa Lo, A Private Initiative of Codification in International Law – Some Ideas of the Draft “Convention on Cross-Border Enforcement of International Mediated Settlement Agreements”
• Walter Woon, Idealism and Realpolitik – Building the ASEAN Community
• Jonathan Hafetz, China and the International Criminal Court: Power and Justice Revisited
• Joshua Root, Castles in the Sand: Engineering Insular Formations to Gain Legal Rights over the Oceans
• Takemasa Sekine, Competition Related Provisions in East Asian FTAs: Their Trends and the Possible Impact of Mega FTAs
• Special Reports
• Hsu-Hua Chou, Regulatory Transparency in the FTA between New Zealand and Taiwan: Text, Context and Implications
• Man Yip, Singapore International Commercial Court: A New Model for Transnational Commercial Litigation
• Pasha L. Hsieh, Taiwan’s WTO Trade Policy Review Reports

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 31, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Roda Mushkat, The Intricacies of Implementing International Law: A Juxtaposition of Theories with the Actualities of the Sino-British Declaration Regarding the Future of Hong Kong
• Erik Franckx & Marco Benatar, The “Duty” to Co-Operate for States Bordering Enclosed or Semi-Enclosed Seas
• Irena Ilieva, Countering Terrorism and Protecting Human Rights: An Asian International Legal Dimension
• Björn Ahl, Treaty Making by the Chinese Central Government and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong
• Jure Vidmar, States, Governments, and Collective Recognition
• Tomoko Yamashita, Do Jus Cogens Norms Invalidate State Immunity? International Restorative Justice and Japanese War Compensation Cases
• Special Report
• Michael Sheng-ti Gau, The Prospects for the Sino-Philippine Arbitration on the South China Sea (U-Shaped Line) Dispute

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 30, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Walter Woon, Resolving Territorial Disputes in ASEAN
• Brad R. Roth, Parsing “Mutual Non-Recognition and Mutual Non-Denial:” An International Law Perspective on Taipei’s Current Framework for Cross-Strait Relations
• Mizushima Tomonori, The Settlement of a Private Person’s Claim against a Foreign “State:” The Case of Japan’s Foreign State Immunity Act
• Alison Pert, The “Duty” of Non-Recognition in Contemporary International Law: Issues and Uncertainties
• Yoshimichi Ishikawa, Plain Packaging Requirements and Article 2.2 of the TBT Agreement
• Chen-Ju Chen, Multipolar Disorder in the East China Sea: Learning from the Experiences in Building the Legal Systems of the Arctic and the Antarctic
• Emika Tokunaga, The Rights of Disaster Victims: Japan’s Triple Disaster Two Years On

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 29, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Fiammetta Borgia & Paolo Vargiu, When Investment Law Takes over: Towards a New Legal Regime to Regulate Asia Pacific’s Submarine Cables Boom
• Hsu-hua Chou, Bargaining for Mijiu Tax Reduction in the Shadow of WTO Law: Challenges for Taiwan and Lessons from Cases against Japan and Korea
• Paul J. Davidson, The Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement: Legal Issues
• Eric Franckx, CITES as an Alternative for Effective Fisheries Management in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Hamamoto Shotaro, Multilateral Treaties and Recognition of States - The Japanese Case Law on the Applicability of the Berne Convention and the Patent Cooperation Treaty between Japan and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Natalie Klein, From Eco-Terrorism to Eco-Tourism: Assessing Effective Regulatory Tools and Regimes in Marine Management
• Josef Mrázek, The Use of Force and Expanded Conceptions of Self-Defence
• Vasilka Sancin, Innovative Arbitration Agreements to Resolve Border Disputes and the Role of Regional International Organizations: Can the Example of Slovenia-Croatia Arbitration Agreement Be Followed in the Asia Pacific?

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 28, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Leading Articles
• Sujin Chan, Beyond Special and Differential Treatment: Key Trends of Importance to East Asian Regionalism
• Caroline Ehlert & Christine Kaufmann, The Dutch Trial at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia – Involving the Cambodians in the Process
• Eliza Mik, Evaluating the Impact of the UN Convention on the Use of Electronic
• Communications in International Contracts on Domestic Contract Law - The Singapore Example
• Miyazaki Takashi, Recognition of States and Governments in International Law: Theory and Practice
• Raul (Pete) Pedrozo, Sovereignty Claims over the Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo/Takeshima)
• H.A. Strydom, Refining the Scope of State Obligations for Treaty-Based Human Rights
• Violations in Respect of Violence against Women: The Meaning of the 2009 Gonzales Ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Anastasia Telesetsky, Rule of Marine Capture versus Rule of Cooperation in the East China Sea: Exploring Options for Regional Ecosystem Restoration
• Emilio E. Varanini, Running Soft Convergence into the Ground: The Case for an International Antitrust Treaty
• Essays and Recent Developments
• Loo Choon Chiaw, Chia Foon Yeow & Wu Yanjuan, The Taiwan Government Sues Two Individuals for the return of a Sum of USD29.8 Million (The Papua New Guinea Case)
• Francesco Seatzu, The Right to Social Security under Article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 27, 2009) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Saša Istenič, Opportunities, Obstacles and Challenges for Mainland China and Taiwan in Adopting CBMs in the Military/Security Domain
• Rafael Leal-Arcas, On China’s Economic Rise: Multilateral versus Regional Attitudes in Trade Agreements and the PCA with the EU
• Yann-huei Song, The Application of Article 121(3) of the Law of the Sea Convention to the Five Selected Disputed Islands in the South China Sea
• Simon NM Young, Constitutional Rights in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal
• Essays and Recent Developments
• Andrew Friedman, Pragmatism over Idealism: Public Interest Advocacy in the People’s Republic of China and the Importance of Collaboration
• Scott Yi-Chun Lin, Globalization, the State, and Cross-Strait Relations: Scenarios for Taiwan
• Ted L. McDorman, A Note on the May 2009 FAO Draft Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate IUU Fishing
• Cho-Hsin Su, Reminiscent of Zollverein – The ECFA from A Constructivist View

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 26, 2008) is out. Contents include:

• Stefan P. Fleischauer, Non-State Negotiations between China and Taiwan – On the Road to European-Style Integration?
• Tom Hart, How Far Can They Succeed? Systematic Speculation on the Prospects for Further Advances in Cross-Strait Relations
• Der-Chin Horng, The EU Model for a Taiwan-China Free Trade Agreement
• Michael Romancov & Magda Leichtová, Kosovo, Ossetia and Abkhazia – A New Strategy of Superpowers? Challenges and Risks for Taiwan
• Günter Schucher, Where Minds Meet: The “Professionalization” of Cross-Strait Academic Exchange
• Han-yi Shaw, Revisiting the Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands Dispute: Examining Legal Claims and New Historical Evidence under International Law and the Traditional East Asian World Order
• Chun-Yuan Lin, Global Positioning and Transjudicialism: Taiwanese Experience from a Global Perspective
• Ivan Willis Rasmussen, Regional Conflict and Contrasting Nationalisms: The Impact of Nationalism on the China-Taiwan Conflict Negotiation

Call for Submissions: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume. Here's the call:

Call for Submissions – Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs commenced publication in 1981 and is jointly published by Cameron May and the Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law. The Yearbook contains contributions addressing issues in international law and international relations with a focus on Taiwan, Mainland China and the Asia Pacific.

Prospective authors interested in publishing in Volume 27 of the Yearbook should submit a manuscript on any topics in the field of international law to csil@seed.net.tw by August 1, 2010. Authors are requested to follow Guidelines for Submissions. Previous volumes of the Yearbook are also available on Westlaw and HeinOnline. General inquiries about the Yearbook can be directed to Pasha Hsieh, Managing Editor, at pashahsieh@smu.edu.sg.

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 25, 2007) is out. Contents include:

• Yann-huei Song, Prompt Release of Fishing Vessels: The Hoshinmaru and Tomimaru Cases (Japan v. Russian Federation) and the Implications for Taiwan
• Dafydd Fell, Adapting to the New System: Taiwanese Political Parties’ Legislative Candidate Selection in 2008 in Comparative Perspective
• Hsu-hua Chou, Coalition-Building as Taiwan’s Strategic Option in the WTO Lawmaking Negotiations
• Mario Esteban, The Diplomatic Battle between Beijing and Taipei in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Kevin Chun-Ming Chen, Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Republic of El Salvador and the Republic of Honduras
• Kuang-Wei Chueh, A Comparative Study of Fair Use between Taiwan and the United States and Future Legislative Suggestions to Taiwan